Does She Make You Want to Smell Like That?

The most important bit of this story on Taylor Momsen's campaign for John Galliano's new perfume is this:

In a nod to the fragrance, Ladurée pastry shops will from mid-October through Christmas sell macaroons flavored with rose and ginger. They'll be packaged in Galliano-designed boxes.

There needn't be a celebrity spokesperson to guarantee sales of that, but of Galliano's new perfume? Well, he really has chosen Taylor Momsen, which was rumored a few months ago in the midst of her mysterious `revealing' as the face of Madonna's Material Girl. Momsen, just 17, walked off the set of Gossip Girl and into the arms of the world's number one popstar and one of France's most respected designers.

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Galliano says he had Momsen in mind while whipping up Parlez-Moi d'Amour (Speak to Me of Love) and concocting the love story behind the bottle and campaign — rockstar lands in Berlin, misses her lover, writes him a letter — and since Momsen's a full time rockstar now, that worked out pretty well.

But, even though she's slightly cleaned up here, do you really want to smell like Little J?

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